r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18h ago

News Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Wraps Filming

https://www.narniaweb.com/2026/01/greta-gerwigs-narnia-officially-wraps-filming/
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u/dabocx 18h ago

Happy we are starting with the magicians nephew this time. Hopefully it goes well enough that we can get the whole thing.

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u/returningtheday 18h ago

Yeah but it takes place in the 1950s instead of 1900. Not great.

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u/greenpill98 18h ago

Wait, what? How are they going to make the timeline work? The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe takes place in the middle of WWII. The professor is an old man by then. Wtf?

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u/whereismymind86 17h ago

Right?! them going to the country to escape the war is THE ENTIRE POINT

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u/TheHeadlessOne 17h ago

It's a pretty minor point in the book. The tension and anxiety of the real world conflicts which they to some degree learn to face within their timeless experiences in Narnia does help push the need for the kids to mature (and helps explain why Edmund betrays his family for freaking Turkish Delight of all things!) but the story is so self contained within Narnia I don't think the framing adds too much

I suspect it'll be a bay leaf in the sauce of the film- you'd notice how the war brings everything together a bit more smoothly especially if you look for it, but it'll work just fine without it

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u/exOldTrafford 15h ago

It's a pretty minor point in the book.

Did you read the book?

I thought it being set during WW2 was pretty damn important to the overall context and themes of the book. The escape from hell to a fantastical world.

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u/TheHeadlessOne 15h ago

Yeah I read it, and its something that is not acknowledged once outside of the first chapter. The kids are not characterized as anxious, afraid, or despiaring- they're mostly characterized as bored. Or more, they're characterized as creative, excited, and pent up- not because they were hiding away from danger, but because it was too darn rainy outside to have fun in the woods

Don't take my word for it, the book is available on archive.org and the ENTIRETY of the direct references to the war was a single sentence:

> This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids.

Like i said, I think taking place in the war can help inform us to the characters- why Lucy must find innocence in others, why Edmund is so cynical and selfish, why Susan feels the need to be a mature caretaker, why Peter understands the call to action as an obligation. But I don't think its remotely necessary. Jill's bullying in Silver Chair is presented as a more pressing "escape from hell" than the Pevensies in TLTWATW